Please join us for the next webinar in the Great Lakes Hydrilla Collaborative’s technical webinar series. Kris Erickson, Principal Scientist and Project Manager with Ecology and Environment, Inc.; Kristen Hebebrand, Project Manager with Chagrin River Watershed Partners, Inc.; and Matt Barnes, Assistant Professor with Texas Tech University’s Department of Natural Resources Management, will be presenting […]
Cyanobacteria are common in water around the world and we expect them to be in Vermont lakes. Staff at the VT DEC and the Department of Health work together with VOLUNTEERS LIKE YOU to keep an eye on what cyanobacteria are doing around the state.
The purpose of this webinar is to encourage and promote partnerships between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), state water programs, water utilities and other stakeholders to take advantage of NRCS opportunities (i.e., new Farm Bill provisions, National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI) Source Water Protection watersheds, and Regional Conservation Partnership Projects (RCPP)) to work […]
The Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP), the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the California Water Boards Data Center, and the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) are hosting the Fourth Annual California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium on July 1-2, 2019 in Sacramento, CA. This annual event aims to enhance how water quality monitoring […]
You work and play on them. You drink from them. But do you really appreciate them? Growing population, development, and invasive species stress your local lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. All life needs water; let’s not take it for granted!
Volunteers have been submitting information during the annual Dip-In snapshot since 1994. Please join them in this international effort to track changes in water quality! The Secchi Dip-In is part of Lakes Appreciation Month, where we celebrate our lakes throughout the month of July each year.
NWQMC Webinar Series Presented by Barb Horn, Colorado Parks & Wildlife John Dawes, Chesapeake Commons Laura Shumway, Environmental Protection Agency The webinar is free; pre-registration is required. Please login 10 minutes early. The goal of most volunteer monitoring programs is to ensure that well-trained volunteers collect data of known quality and use data used for […]
It’s summer – and that means for a lot of communities harmful algal blooms (HABs), or blue green algae, are top of mind. Tune in to this month’s The Current webinar as we hear from the Network’s Mitigating HABs team as they discuss their soon to be released white paper cataloging Extension and state-based algal […]
Arrangements are well underway for the Annual Meeting of the Aquatic Plant Management Society at the DoubleTree San Diego Mission Valley – July 14-17, 2019. The 59th Annual Meeting will be a joint gathering with the Western Chapter of the APMS. The Program Committee has assembled sessions pertinent to western aquatic plant and water management […]
The purpose of this program is to teach inland lake property owners and local officials the benefits of maintaining shorelines in a natural state and to teach about tools and resources for property owners to plan and protect natural shorelines and for local governments to plan for and regulate natural shoreline techniques.
